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TheDiceMustRoll posted:? Really? Huh. I never saw the Lost Mines until the late summer of that year, but I'm a toronto canadian, so that might have changed stuff. Also, I was a manitoba canadian in that year, so Any number of things, but I can certainly imagine that the box set might not have been a priority to get a second printing like the PHB was. That said, it's the best of the 5e adventures, and WOTC botched the hardback adaptation real bad.
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Eastmabl posted:Any number of things, but I can certainly imagine that the box set might not have been a priority to get a second printing like the PHB was. Can you explain?
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There were some odd and unpopular changes to Phandelver and Below. https://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/50077/roleplaying-games/review-the-shattered-obeliskquote:The mind flayer’s name is Qunbraxel. He’s been here for weeks or possibly months (the adventure is unclear), accompanied by his grimlock servants. Unfortunately, the only hallway to the room where the shard is located is blocked by a regenerating magic item: No matter how much his grimlock servants hit it, it just regenerates. Alexander just released a GMing book which actually focuses on classic dungeon crawls - using map keys and so on - and this article mentions that part of his reason for doing so is that D&D no longer teaches this or acts as an example. hyphz fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Nov 24, 2023 |
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Eastmabl posted:I'm relying on The Alexandrian a fair bit, and spoilers abound in the links: This was my past take
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PAX Unplugged looks like it may be getting one of the first public playtests of Starfinder 2E.
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https://twitter.com/GoodmanGames/status/1730349263387853233 In the real world, someone approved this panel and poster. I can't read the comments because I refuse to use the app or log in anymore.
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That's a lot of generic white dudes. Couldn't find anyone who wasn't a 50something white guy, because no-one outside that demographic who plays RPGs or is making them. (Which is about what all the comments I skimmed also said.) Like, it's 2023. You have to actively go out of your way to not notice how wildly diverse the RPG crowd is, which raises questions as to why it is the way it is. (It's racism, sexism, and myriad -phobias.)
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Eastmabl posted:https://twitter.com/GoodmanGames/status/1730349263387853233 Change "twitter.com" to "nitter.net"' and you'll punch through.
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I mean… yeah, those are the dudes who write for Goodman Games. If you want to more broadly represent indie RPGs and their diversity, don’t just go with the one dungeon crawl focused company as your partner, Backerkit.
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But there will be dozens more! Maybe some of them will be under 40 and/or non-white. Fingers crossed!
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Cassius Belli posted:Change "twitter.com" to "nitter.net"' and you'll punch through. I am aware. I'm off Twitter mostly for sanity purposes, as it's swirling the drain.
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Mirage posted:But there will be dozens more! Maybe some of them will be under 40 and/or non-white. Fingers crossed! Scanning over the facebook list shows a fair amount of women, still pretty white though.
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Eastmabl posted:I am aware. I'm off Twitter mostly for sanity purposes, as it's swirling the drain. Oh, for sure. I like to remind people about Nitter because it's super useful and sometimes context is essential to the discussion at hand, but avoiding Twitter entirely is probably the best decision, overall.
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Cassius Belli posted:Oh, for sure. I like to remind people about Nitter because it's super useful and sometimes context is essential to the discussion at hand, but avoiding Twitter entirely is probably the best decision, overall. I do wish Nitter would show community notes, but I still use it with an auto-redirect script to avoid giving Twitter page views.
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-don’t mind me
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You still have time to rethink that response
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Ominous Jazz posted:You still have time to rethink that response Edited because I realized I dont care fidgit fucked around with this message at 06:19 on Dec 2, 2023 |
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I'm in my 60s, and those guys all look older than me. WTF?
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I'm in my 60s, and those guys all look older than me. WTF? wow big humblebrag from 'person who aged gracefully:  wait wait hum-bug-le-brag nailed it
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Anybody here play Unconquered? Maybe plagiarized from Ultraviolet Grasslands? https://traversefantasy.blogspot.com/2023/12/plagiarism-in-unconquered-2022.html?m=1
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CitizenKeen posted:Anybody here play Unconquered? Maybe plagiarized from Ultraviolet Grasslands? Those text comparisons are damning, there's really no question here of some pretty shameless plagiarism. I suppose if there's any upside to this, it's that it might drive some views to Ultraviolet Grasslands, which is quite neat.
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I laughed when I read the examples. I was like.... This is some lazy kid in high school poo poo, here. Keeping core phrases but using a few synonyms? Padding between lines? Mild reorganizing? Golly.
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dwarf74 posted:I laughed when I read the examples. I was like.... This is some lazy kid in high school poo poo, here. If you wanna talk about lazy-rear end plagiarism a wild 4-hour long hbomberguy expose of plagiarism in YouTube "documentaries" just came out.
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Recommend listening at 2x in the background while doing something else though because it's padded af. I'm glad I learned about some new awful youtubers, but the new overly long youtube meta to maximize ads and views is exhausting
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admanb posted:4-hour long hbomberguy lmfao
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Bottom Liner posted:Recommend listening at 2x in the background while doing something else though because it's padded af. I'm glad I learned about some new awful youtubers, but the new overly long youtube meta to maximize ads and views is exhausting yeah I'm sick and just playing MMOs all day so 1.5x was perfect
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hbomberguy talks too fast and britishly already, I don't know why you'd accelerate the process
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I don't think the video was "padded" at all. The point was to present an overwhelming amount of evidence to build an ironclad case that this was deliberate and systemic.
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Kestral posted:Those text comparisons are damning, there's really no question here of some pretty shameless plagiarism. I suppose if there's any upside to this, it's that it might drive some views to Ultraviolet Grasslands, which is quite neat. If you ask 1980s TSR, we're all disgusting thieves playing DnD wrong.
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Nuns with Guns posted:hbomberguy talks too fast and britishly already, I don't know why you'd accelerate the process Worst English can be rough but I don’t find his accent or intonation particularly challenging.
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I watched the whole video. Hbomberguy really pulls it all together at the end. Absurdly long perhaps, but it's one of his very best.
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Yeah, it's not padded and Hbomb isn't just inflating view length for that sweet sweet ad revenue. In fact he's donating all ad revenue from this video to the creators whose work was stolen.
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Also a good chunk of the length comes from the necessity to play bits of the plagiarists' videos to illustrate where they've been doing plagiarisms. There's a limit to which he could cut down his material without either a) indulging in exactly the sort of unsourced assertion he's trying to challenge or b) tossing evidence aside and thereby weakening his case. Yes, there's jokes, but they don't seem overly milked to me and help keep things engaging. Todd In the Shadows' follow-up video is also interesting because it manages a similarly devastating demolition of James Somerton coming from a totally different direction (namely, the direction which points out that Somerton just plain gets facts wrong or has weird and totally unsupported takes a lot of the time).
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While I'm sympathetic to the complaint about video length, there's a pretty real difference between the occasional very long video from Hbomb etc, and poo poo like mauler whose whole thing is going frame-by-frame through a movie for a million hours to be mad at women. Though I am willing to admit I found my limit with Noah Caldwell-Gervais when he broke my heart after finally getting a new mic but then started putting out 7- and 10-hour videos.
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That Old Tree posted:While I'm sympathetic to the complaint about video length, there's a pretty real difference between the occasional very long video from Hbomb etc, and poo poo like mauler whose whole thing is going frame-by-frame through a movie for a million hours to be mad at women. Bless Noah for existing. I've taken to playing a random NeverKnowsBest video to fall asleep too because sweet English calm man tells me about final fantasy for 4 hours is maximum vibes. But that poo poo on YouTube has been systemic for ages. A lot of the Gundam guys have taken to slapping their brand logo on a cutting mat in the middle of the screen because cropping is so easy and poo poo gets reposted. Especially the videos where no one is speaking so it's incredibly easy to copy, crop, and reupload. poo poo like this is what the copyright detection should be flagging but somehow it never seems to catch this small time stuff. Weird.
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Ravus Ursus posted:Bless Noah for existing. I'd never played a Fallout before this year but his video on it was so good and so enthusiastic that I jumped in with feet first and discovered an entire new (sub)genre of game that I've come to love
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Ravus Ursus posted:poo poo like this is what the copyright detection should be flagging but somehow it never seems to catch this small time stuff. Weird. I think YouTube’s copyright stuff sucks, but I don’t really know how you would expect it to catch video essayists ripping off books and magazine articles.
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gradenko_2000 posted:I'd never played a Fallout before this year but his video on it was so good and so enthusiastic that I jumped in with feet first and discovered an entire new (sub)genre of game that I've come to love For real? You watched the (checks) nine hour video on Fallout and then decided to play them? That's a bit funny to me, but also cool!
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Subjunctive posted:I think YouTube’s copyright stuff sucks, but I don’t really know how you would expect it to catch video essayists ripping off books and magazine articles. I meant more the wholesale video reuploads.
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Ravus Ursus posted:I meant more the wholesale video reuploads. Oh, like AreTheyGay’s stuff that was copied? Yeah, maybe, though I’ll admit as I was watching the hbomberguy video I was wondering how he didn’t get copyright struck for replaying so much of Somerton’s videos. I guess it has to be registered with content ID or whatever.
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